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Hello, good fellows. I'm pleased to find this harbour. I'm still tinkering with the buttons - I never did care for silicon chips - much happier with beam tetrodes and similar friendly valves. How I managed to end up supervising a TV studio is a long story.
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To quote Billy Bennet, tell us it Harry, if it's clean.
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Hello Harry, good to have you on board the Happy Ship. A lot of us ended up in unexpected places and careers, so you will fit in well. Pull up a chair and settle in! |
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Still tinkering with the profile.
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I've always loved that valve ... the 'beam-tetrode.' I mean, that's a much more impressive name than the 'bipolar transistor,' ... it's a bit more 'Flash Gordon.'
![]() I'm not knocking modern electronics, far from it (there isn't any way I'm going back to a 14 inch black and white television with 405 lines and was the size of a washing machine instead of a 65 inch high definition set which if you look at it sideways is barely 2 inches deep) but I kind of liked firing up the old Oceanspan with its three fingered salute of 807s as opposed to the small ICOM transceiver I now use (same power output) not much bigger than a shoe box that seems to stare at me as if I'm some sort of inferior being. ![]() That isn't to say I'm going to sacrifice the ICOM for an old Marconi banger .... NOT GOING TO HAPPEN !! But I do see the romance of the 'valve' ... as I do the steam engine. Bit it is something of a rose tinted view of the past.
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Bugger, Tugger --- I have experienced that the odd time in the past, but it usually happened when I had followed a link on the internet, and then wound up following another link, etc. When I got back to SH I supposed I had "timed out", or something. The same thing used to happen on that other site as well, even when it was working well. Hope that helps?
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Greetings Harry and welcome to SH. Bon voyage.
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Welcome Harry....Good to have the other Horsley clan member this side.
geoff |
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A favourite of mine was 'Varactor Diode' (damned if I can remember what it was). Try saying it in a Fred Lloyd accent...... |
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… And then there things like Klystrons and Thyratrons !! Back in the days of knife switches and arcs of electricity flying about .. maybe a sown together Boris Karloff type monster lying somewhere out on the back bench ..
![]() There's just no romance in electronics anymore …. ![]()
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"There's just no romance in electronics anymore ….
![]() Speaking of romance - Raquel Welch in Bedazzled on Talking Pictures TV 9pm tonight. Brace yourself Bob |
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I think she played a character called 'Lust' in that !!!
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You are suspiciously well informed. Have you got a thing about Dinosaurs?
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Lilian Lust - Her's was the only '7 deadly sins' characters to have a first name. Back on thread - Welcome aboard Harry, to a happy ship. ![]()
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